IRMA MARGARET ELMER

Irma Margaret Elmer, 92, died Tuesday May 4, 2010, in De Soto, Kan. Visitation will be 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, May 7, with Rosary at 7 p.m. at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Tonganoxie. Funeral Mass is at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 8, at the church. Burial will follow in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Kansas City, Kan. Irma was born July 19, 1917, in Greeley, Kan., the daughter of Joseph and Mary Kreipe Miller. She was united in marriage to Thomas R. Elmer on August. 1940 in, Kansas City, Mo. She was a homemaker and a member of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Tonganoxie. She was preceded in death by her husband, two sons, Thomas C. and Ed Elmer, two brothers, Duke (Richard) and Clarence Miller, one daughter-in-law, Shirley Elmer, and one son-in-law, David Hayes. Survivors include her sister, Isabelle Quade; her children, James and wife Betty, Tim and wife Jett, daughter-in- law, Dara, Ann Hurt and husband Galen, Rosalie Goodwin and husband Keith, Helen Newton and husband Duane, William and wife Robbie, Steve and wife Gloria, Alicia Hayes, Mark and wife Patty, Tony and wife Lynda, and Wayne; 47 grandchildren, 61 great grandchildren and six great-great grandchildren.